Improvement in devices for preventing children from falling out of windows



G. KONIGSBERG.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GABRIEL KONIGSBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR PREVENTING CHILDREN FROM FALLING OUT OF WINDOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,260, dated July 21, 1874; application filed May 9, 1874.

. of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Device for Preventing Children from Falling Out of Windows, of which the following is a specification In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved device for preventing children from falling out of windows, as applied to a window-easing; and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on the line 0 c of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A represents the windowcasing; B, the sashes; and O, the horizontal rods, which are placed at suitable distance from each other across the lower part of the window, preferably below the upper sash, and supported in wooden blocks D of the width of the sash-guide groove. Each block D has a central wri'oration for the rod 0, which is out exactly to the width of the window, the blocks being placed between the sash-guiding strips. The connection of the blocks D may be made by tin boxes I), fastened to the upper part of each block, and forming a socket for the lower part of the next block; or a pin-and-socket fastening, or hook and eye, or any other suitable connection of the blocks may be used until a suificient number of blocks and rods are arranged in the window to prevent any possibility of accident or danger to the children looking out. The uppermost block, D, is secured either by a flange and set-screw, a, as indicated in the drawing, or fastened to the casing in other suitable manner, or merely held by the weight of the sash carried thereon, so as to bind firmly the whole series of blocks together.

By detaching the fastening device or sash, the uppermost blocks may be raised and carried on the rod toward the center, so that the upper rod may be readily taken out of the sash-strips, and then the other rods with their blocks raised from their connecting-blocks and detached from the window.

The whole device is readily applied and detached, as required, and also adjusted to any desired height, according to the distance of the window above the floor, and the size of the children, forming thereby a very convenient, cheap, and useful protective attachment for nursery and other windows.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with casing A, sashes B, and horizontal rods 0, of centrally-perforated wooden blocks D, arranged between sashguides and connected by boxes D, as and for the purpose described.

GABRIEL KoNIesBERe.

YVitnesses:

T. B. MOSHER, I ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

